BJJ News — ADCC

ADCC's Ticket-Sales Crisis Has a Number: 1,724 Sold, 9,351 Empty, 4 Per Day

ADCC's Ticket-Sales Crisis Has a Number: 1,724 Sold, 9,351 Empty, 4 Per Day

That's the current sales pace for ADCC 2026, booked for September 12–13 at TAURON Arena Kraków, a venue with 14,941 available seats. BJJ World scraped live ticket availability data across 22 active sales sections of the arena and published the count: 1,724 sold, 9,351 still available in those sectio
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Kyra Gracie: The Gracie Family Paid Women Champions $2,000 While Men Earned $50,000 — And Forbade Them From Training In The First Place

Kyra Gracie: The Gracie Family Paid Women Champions $2,000 While Men Earned $50,000 — And Forbade Them From Training In The First Place

That's the pay gap Kyra Gracie says existed inside the Gracie family for its own champions. Not in some rival organization.
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Gordon Ryan Doesn't Respect the Superfight He Vacated — Now Questioning Duarte's Right to Hold It

Gordon Ryan Doesn't Respect the Superfight He Vacated — Now Questioning Duarte's Right to Hold It

Gordon Ryan vacated the ADCC Superfight title in February 2026. He's spent the time since explaining why Kaynan Duarte doesn't deserve it.
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ADCC's Answer to 63% Empty Seats Is a 2019 Rematch — Gordon Ryan Already Calling It a Consolation Prize

ADCC's Answer to 63% Empty Seats Is a 2019 Rematch — Gordon Ryan Already Calling It a Consolation Prize

Sixty-three percent of the seats in Tauron Arena are currently empty. That's the actual math.
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Kyra Gracie Says Her Own Family Tried to Block Her From Training — The Gracies Almost Stopped the Gracies

Kyra Gracie Says Her Own Family Tried to Block Her From Training — The Gracies Almost Stopped the Gracies

The Gracie name is jiu-jitsu. It's on the lineage walls, in the textbooks, baked into every gym that traces its roots to Rio.
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Dean Lister Says BJJ Was Tougher Then But Better Now — Both Halves Of The Sport Are About To Be Mad

Dean Lister Says BJJ Was Tougher Then But Better Now — Both Halves Of The Sport Are About To Be Mad

If you wanted to start a fight in any BJJ academy on earth this week, all you had to do was read Dean Lister's BJJEE interview out loud at the front desk. Lister, ADCC absolute champion and the guy who walked up to John Danaher in 2000 and asked "why would you ignore 50% of the human body?", publish
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Franjinha Miller: No-Gi Has A Cleaner Path To The Olympics Than Gi — And The Old Guard Is Splitting On Its Own Question

Franjinha Miller: No-Gi Has A Cleaner Path To The Olympics Than Gi — And The Old Guard Is Splitting On Its Own Question

Franjinha Miller came out this week and said what a lot of people have been quietly thinking: no-gi has a cleaner path to the Olympics than gi does. Then he said the part everyone is skipping past.
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ADCC's Absolute Champion Can't Fill a Seminar in Her Own Country — Australians Think They're Already Good Enough

ADCC's Absolute Champion Can't Fill a Seminar in Her Own Country — Australians Think They're Already Good Enough

She submitted Beatriz Mesquita on penalties. She submitted Bia Basilio with an armlock to win her weight class.
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